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This function performs a division of TLB shipments in SAP Advance Planning and Optimization (APO) in the case of multiple purchasing groups or a parallel consigned and non-consigned scenario in the VMI scenario.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined VMI purchasing groups on the SAP Easy Access screen under   Advanced Planning and Optimization   Master Data   Product   Product  .

  • You have specified the form of procurement on the SAP Easy Access screen under   Advanced Planning and Optimization   Master Data   Transportation Lane   Transportation Lane   by selecting the Consignment radio button for the relevant products.

  • You have defined both a sales document type and a consignment sales document type in Customizing to enable a parallel processing of consigned and non-consigned items after the shipment split. For more information, see Customizing for SAP ERP under   Integration with Other mySAP.com Components   Advanced Planning and Optimization   Application-Specific Settings and Enhancements   Settings and Enhancements for Sales Orders   Settings for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)   Define Customer/Plant Assignment and Configure ATP Check  .

Features

  • The system executes the shipment split during the TLB run, before it publishes the data to SAP ERP. It first checks whether multiple purchasing groups exist, secondly whether Consignment has been selected for any of the products in the transportation lane master data, and then performs a grouping of shipments accordingly.

  • A Consignment indicator is displayed for the relevant shipments on the Transport Load Builder user interface.